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Poverty

Definition Question.What is poverty?
Poverty is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain better employment to escape poverty, and/or to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens. According to Mollie Orshansky who developed the poverty measurements used by the U.S. government, "to be poor is to be deprived of those goods and services and pleasures which others around us take for granted." Ongoing debates over causes, effects and best ways to measure poverty, directly influence the design and implementation of poverty-reduction programs and are therefore relevant to the fields of public administration and international developement.
Although poverty is mainly considered to be undesirable due to the pain and suffering it may cause, in certain spiritual contexts "voluntary poverty," involving the renunciation of material goods, is seen by some as virtuous.
Poverty may affect individuals or groups, and is not confined to the developing nations. Poverty in developed countries is manifest in a set of social problems including homelessness and the persistence of "ghetto" housing clusters.
This info is courtisy of wikipedia.
Background Questions.
Why do people let poverty happen?Because they dont want to know about it as if because they dont think about it doesnt existjust like the saying out of sight out of mind.
How is poverty caused?It is caused by families with sick(or even DEAD) parents that cant get work to earn money so they just get poorer and poorer
Who can help prevent poverty?We can all help prevent poverty by donating to projects such as World vision, Tearfund and unecef or sponser a child.
When will it stop? It will only stop if we all pull together and help thats is the only way that poverty will go away so dont just sit around DO SOMETHING!!!!

Get a Voki now!

This is a video I found on you tube about poverty. This video is Move by Rapture Ruckus.

So what?

Make posters to put around the school/Taradale/Napier encouraging people to sponsor a child or donate to the projects
Get a school sponsor child
Go to world vision and make a video to present to school about what I did and so they can have an insight to the way they live
Show some youtube videos about poverty to the school
Write to the news paper and try to get an artical
Have a fund raiser to raise money to send to world vision
Go to fair go to help raise awareness to new zealand